They were widely seen as a positive civic group, and many of Michigan's leading (forward leaning?) citizens were happy to take positions in the organization, and calling for progressive new legislation in the state. (Link)

Approximately 3,000 Ku Klux Klan members march through Grand Rapids in 1925 (Bridge Street)
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Prohobition was in full swing then, as all right thinking citizens knew that giving ordinary people the freedom to chose what they could ingest was just wrong for so many reasons. It would have been a veritable end to civilization as we know it.

Michigan's restrictive new pistol laws had just been enacted the year before, with the new county "Concealed Weapon Licensing Boards". They were created to make sure that permission would only be granted to "a suitable person to be licensed" (the literal wording of the law, until 2001). This was just after the Ossian Sweet case (a black doctor had moved into a white neighborhood, and the when a mob with torches came to burn his family out, two were shot, one killed. Dr. Sweet's brother was arrested for the shooting, and tried and acquitted, which upset the order of the day.)
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